from the beautiful archives of mr. & mrs. mahler, founders of ostkreuz

what is your best personality trait?

loyalty and perceptiveness.

what is your worst personality trait?

reservedness.

what have you marched in the streets for/against?

to get to goosens, the great bakery in antwerp, for their currant bread.

if you could live out one fantasy, what would it be?

that creativity is embraced as much in adolescents as it is in children.

excerpt from hint mag

sights and observations from the past month or so

collectors are people with a tactical instinct; their experience teaches them that when they capture a strange city, the smallest antique shop can be a fortress, the most remote stationary store a key position. how many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches i undertook in pursuit of books! … now i am on the last half-emptied crate, and it is way past midnight. other thoughts fill me than the ones i am talking about — not thoughts but images, memories … for a collector — and i mean a real collector, a collector as he ought to be — ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to things. not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them.

walter benjamin